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CELL
Volume 114, Issue 3, Pages 359-370Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00566-X
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA92625] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [K08 HL67580-03] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI35714] Funding Source: Medline
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We employed gene targeting to study H2AX, a histone variant phosphorylated in chromatin surrounding DNA double-strand breaks. Mice deficient for both H2AX and p53 ((HP-/-)-P-Delta/Delta) rapidly developed immature T and B lymphomas and solid tumors. Moreover, H2AX haploinsufficiency caused genomic instability in normal cells and, on a p53-deficient background, early onset of various tumors including more mature B lymphomas. Most H2AX(Delta/Delta)p53(-/-) or H2AX(+/Delta) p53(-/-) B lineage lymphomas harbored chromosome 12 (IgH)/15 (c-myc) translocations with hallmarks of either aberrant V(D)J or class switch recombination. In contrast, H2AX(Delta/Delta)p53(-/-) thymic lymphomas had clonal translocations that did not involve antigen receptor loci and which likely occurred during cellular expansion. Thus, H2AX helps prevent aberrant repair of both programmed and general DNA breakage and, thereby, functions as a dosage-dependent suppressor of genomic instability and tumors in mice. Notably, H2AX maps to a cytogenetic region frequently altered in human cancers, possibily implicating similar functions in man.
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